Re: Tar filesystem for the GNU Hurd

"Ludovic Court?s" <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:57:59 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.paxutils.general
Organization	Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 04:18:44PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Does your code implement the PAX archive format or rather GNU tar?

Rather GNU tar.

> Did you test it for POSIX compliance?

I did. It works with ustar-all-filetypes.tar but hard links fail with
ustar-all-quicktest.tar. That's the reason why I'd prefer to use "safe" code
such as code from the paxutils package.

Thanks,
Ludovic.